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The Federal High Court, Abuja, has threatened to jail the Director-General of the Department of State Services, Yusuf Bichi, over his refusal to release journalist and Publisher of Sahara Reporters.

Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday ordered the immediate release of the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Mr. Omoyele Sowore.

Human rights lawyer Femi Falana has insisted that he and his team would stay put inside the spy police premises until the DSS releases Sowore to him as ordered by the court. 

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